Quote: atomic "It’s clear that the vaccinations are in progress. The drugs companies are stating 2M vaccines will be available weekly with the NHS stating they can cater for that. It’s all down to if those numbers can be increased.'"
There's now an online vaccine calculator. The fit over 50's may not get vaccinated until May, those younger - say 40 - are down for the first vaccination around August. The second vaccinations are several weeks after that.
People are different in their outlook - some may be happy to stand in the open air at Mount Pleasant without any vaccinations, others may not wish to go to a game until 2022 and it's all fully done.
But this aside, the Championships are still on a SKY deal that paid over £16,000,000 in a five year contract. The money was to help clubs compete in the race to the middle eights and then the Million ££ game. That baloney was pulled by the Superleague clubs, but as far as I know the money is still being paid to the Championship clubs. So if the Championships don't play, there is plenty of scope to just mothball things using the SKY money. Maybe even furlough IF it extends past the part time players first jobs. Maybe contracts are null and void if games aren't played so I don't see a wholesale ruination in the Championships....... Not on the Covid issue
The question then remains what the 2022 set up will mean to the Championships. The SL clubs looked to create a two times 10 clubs Superleague not that long ago. That cast aside seventeen clubs. I would guess any second attempt 2022 for SL to control the top of the game beyond just SL may see them invite 2x12 clubs to come under their wing......
We have what? 37 clubs so if anything threatens clubs in the Championships as they now stand, it isn't Covid...................